Institutional Programs

This section include reports, links and essays that include information about campus- and university-wide programs of ethics education for undergraduate and graduate students and for post-doctoral fellows in science and engineering.

This paper describes an engineering graduate option that attempts to overcome the negative side effects of specialization and compartmentalization by building an intimate link between technical and ethical training.

GILEE is a graduate interdisciplinary liberal engineering ethics curriculum developed at Virginia Tech by an interdisciplinary team of educators. It is supported by the National Science Foundation. The GILEE curriculum addresses how issues of engineering ethics and cultural identities are intertwined within a globalized workplace. It is a collaborative effort with the Virginia Tech Graduate School and its dean, Dr. Karen P. DePauw.

This initiative of the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), seeks to advance the scope and quality of graduate education in the ethical and responsible conduct of research. Supported by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), CGS has made awards to seven institutions participating in five projects, each of which is developing and assessing educational models that promote responsible scholarly conduct. This site serves as a tool for sharing ideas developed in these projects and as a clearinghouse of resources relevant to graduate deans and other university administrators, faculty, researchers, and graduate students. The resources on this site address curricular needs across a wide range of topics typically covered in responsible conduct of research (RCR) education and training. The web page also includes a well-designed database of relevant articles on assessment, broad areas of ethics in universities, and topics in RCR and science research ethics.

As part of the Council of Graduate School’s Project for Scholarly Integrity and internal university initiatives, Penn State University is implementing required graduate student education in the responsible conduct of research (RCR) through a program called Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI). This program is required of all graduate students beginning with students entering the university in Fall 2009. The SARI program model includes both interdisciplinary and program-specific RCR education and includes two parts. First, during the first year of enrollment, graduate students are required to complete an online RCR training program provided by the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). Next, graduate engage in an additional 5 hours of discussion-based RCR education prior to degree completion. These discussions will encompass both universal and discipline-specific material.

This page describes the undergraduate program offered by the Department of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at the University of Virginia. It includes a description of courses taken during the first, second, third, and fourth years.

The Council of Graduate Schools Project for Scholarly Integrity (CGS-PSI) is designed to advance quality education in ethical and responsible conduct of research (RCR). The project includes seven institutions and five projects to create and assess educational models promoting responsible conduct. Their website contains a number of useful resources including a Framework for Collaborative Action which lays out a common framework for universities seeking to embed research ethics into graduate curricula.